[37] Campbell's Lives of the Chief Justices, i. 210.
[38] This sketch of Smith's early life is based upon his True Travels, etc., in his Works, edited by Edward Arber, Birmingham, 1884, pp. 821-880.
[39] For a good sketch of Sigismund and his relations to the Empire and to the Turks, see Schlosser's Weltgeschichte, vol. xiii. pp. 325-344.
[40] Smith's Works, ed. Arber, pp. xxii., 842.
[41] Purchas, His Pilgrimes, ii. 1363.
[42] So many long missing historical documents have turned up of late years that it is never safe to assert that one is "lost." That great scholar, Don Pascual de Gayangos, seems to have seen a printed Spanish translation of Farnese's book, but I do not know where it is.
[43] It would be just like Smith, I think, not to make much account of his exploit. Hence he neglected to make any record of his grant of arms until the appearance of Purchas's book in 1625, and resulting talks among friends, probably impressed upon him the desirableness of making such a record.
[44] Thomas Carlton's verses, in Smith's Works, ed. Arber, p. 692.
[45] See my Discovery of America, ii. 105.
[46] It seems likely that the point at the upper end of the Roads received its name of Newport News from the gallant captain. On several old maps I have found it spelled Newport Ness, which is equivalent to Point Newport.